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Job Summary
The CAT Rental Store Technician is responsible for inspecting, maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing a wide range of rental equipment, including diesel and gasoline-powered machinery, aerial work platforms, forklifts, earthmoving equipment, and material handling equipment. This role plays a critical part in ensuring equipment is safe, reliable, and ready for customer use.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Perform inspections, preventive maintenance, diagnostics, service, and repairs on rental equipment.
- Troubleshoot and repair diesel and gasoline engines, hydraulic systems, electrical systems, and related components.
- Maintain and repair aerial work platforms, including boom lifts and scissor lifts.
- Service forklifts, earthmoving equipment, and material handling equipment to ensure optimal performance and safety.
- Utilize supplied diagnostic tools and equipment to accurately identify and resolve mechanical issues.
- Complete service documentation and maintenance records accurately and timely.
- Follow all company safety standards, processes, and procedures.
- Communicate effectively with supervisors, coworkers, and customers regarding equipment status and repair needs.
Required Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED required.
- Minimum of one (1) year of hands-on experience performing maintenance, service, and repair on aerial work platforms, material handling equipment, earthmoving equipment, or similar heavy equipment.
- Working knowledge of diesel and gasoline engine diagnostics, maintenance, and repair.
- Experience troubleshooting and repairing hydraulic and electrical systems.
- Must provide and maintain a personal set of mechanic's tools required to perform job duties.
- Strong mechanical aptitude and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to use computer-based diagnostic tools and systems.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience maintaining and repairing aerial work platforms, particularly JLG and Genie equipment, such as boom lifts, scissor lifts, forklifts, and other construction or rental fleet equipment.
- Previous experience working in a rental equipment, heavy equipment, or construction equipment environment.
Employee Benefits:
- Continued industry-leading technical training to progress in your role and to stay up to date on the newest technology and systems.
- Employer-sponsored pension plan
- Competitive pay rate
- First-year vacation and personal time which builds based on length of service.
- Two different Health Insurance options, including an Health Savings Account (HSA) option
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Dental and Vision Insurance
- Credit Union Access
- Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Scholarship opportunities for employee's spouses and children, through the Ohio Machinery Education and Opportunity Foundation.
- Company provided and laundered uniforms
- Continued technical and professional training
Physical Requirements:
The functions of the position require lifting, carrying, and pulling up to 50 pounds. Standing and sitting up, moving up and down stairs, and climbing into machines will be required. The functions of the position require normal dexterity and repetitive, as well as frequent, movements that involve the hands, wrists, and fingers. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet in office settings and moderate to loud in other situations, with both constant and sudden loud noises possible.
EEO, Veterans & Disabled Employer, and VEVRAA/503 Federal Contractor.